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The Nintendo Download: This Is The Story Of A Cave

It’s Cave Story week on the Nintendo Download, and Nintendo has gotten every other WiiWare game out of the way in order to make sure Studio Pixel’s eagerly anticipated action adventure has center stage. IT feels like we’ve been waiting forever, but we don’t have to wait no more. Cave Story for WiiWare is here,…

By Mike Fahey Published March 22, 2010

Nintendo And McDonalds: A Short History

The king of fast-food. The biggest Japanese video game company. Nintendo and McDonald’s have been in cahoots for years The recent news that McDonald’s is using the Nintendo DS to quickly train new part-time employees is just the latest in a long, long line of Nintendo-McDonald’s tie-ups. This collaboration helps McDonald’s cuts training time in…

By Brian Ashcraft Published March 22, 2010

Mario Creator Has Never Called Video Games “Art”

Are video games art? Or are they entertainment? Let’s see what Shigeru Miyamoto, creator of Super Mario Bros. and The Legend of Zelda. Last week, Miyamoto was in London to receive a British Academy of Film and Television Arts Fellowship at the GAME British Academy Video Games Award, reports the Associated Press. “It’s a great…

By Brian Ashcraft Published March 22, 2010

Awkward: Zelda Music On Reality TV Show

There’s a big TV show called America’s Got Talent. Britain’s Got Talent, too. Even Norway has it, and we like Norway’s the best, as it’s the only one with uncomfortable live renditions of a song from Ocarina of Time. The real action begins at 2:20 in the clip above, but if you’d like to sit…

By Luke Plunkett Published March 22, 2010

Pikmin 3 “Well Underway” Says Miyamoto

Nintendo designer and Donkey Kong creator Shigeru Miyamoto was in London today to pick up his BAFTA fellowship award, an honor he reciprocated by delivering his acceptance speech in pure English. What did Miyamoto have to say, specifically about Pikmin? According to the tweet-reporting of the Official Nintendo Magazine UK, Mr. Miyamoto offered the briefest…

By Michael McWhertor Published March 19, 2010

How To Write Pokemon Music? Pretending!

In the West, when one says “Pokémon music”, this song probably leaps to mind. We are not talking about that this song. Besides heading up the Pokémon franchise, Junichi Masuda also composes battle music for the series. “There is no doubt that I am inspired by many great composers. But when I work on the…

By Brian Ashcraft Published March 19, 2010

For $2600, This Mario Had Better be Super

Currently for sale on eBay: this Mario pendant, lined with gold and covered with diamonds. Perfect for any Nintendo fanboy currently in the rap or drug dealing business. Bids are open if you’d like or, if you’d prefer not to let somebody else secure such a tasteful and reserved piece of jewellery, you can exercise…

By Luke Plunkett Published March 19, 2010

Wipeout: The Game Set To Disappoint Fans Of Futuristic Racing This Summer

There’s a new Wipeout game coming to the Nintendo Wii and DS this summer, but don’t get too excited – it’s not what you think. For nearly 15 years, Sony fans have thrilled to the balls-out futuristic racing action of the Wipeout series, with each installment bringing new challenges and more speed to the beloved…

By Mike Fahey Published March 18, 2010

A Cave Story On My Wall

Hitting March 22, the Wii version of classic PC game Cave Story will include new options and visual enhancements. It won’t, however, include this spiffy canvas that just showed up on my doorstep by indie artist Christopher Reavey or this letter from game creator Daisuke Ayama.

By Brian Crecente Published March 18, 2010

Metroid: Other M Isn’t Completely Off the Rails

Playing through a section of Metroid: Other M last week, I couldn’t help but notice that the Wii title felt at times very much like the sort of game the developers said it wasn’t: An on-the-rails shooter. During his talk at the Game Developers Conference last week, Metroid co-creator Yoshio Sakamoto said the game was…

By Brian Crecente Published March 18, 2010

Why Doesn’t Pokemon Get Global Simultaneous Releases?

DS title Pokémon HeartGold and SoulSilver were released in Japan on September 12. The games didn’t come out in North America until this March. With so many games these days getting either global or near global releases, what gives? “We do our best to make our games so North American players can enjoy the game…

By Brian Ashcraft Published March 18, 2010

Metroid: Other M and The Great Samus Schism

While Metroid: Other M may feel like a departure for the series in the way it plays and the influences brought in by fabled designers Team Ninja, at its heart it is meant to be a unifying game for the series. In fact, the unifying game for all things Metroid. While Star Wars has its…

By Brian Crecente Published March 17, 2010

Dead Mario And Crucified Jesus

To depict the true meaning of game over, artist Kordian Lewandowski called on Mario, Princess Peach and, well, Jesus. Carved by a 24-year-old Michelangelo, La Pietá shows Mary cradling Jesus in her lap after he has been crucified. The statue was vandalized in the early 1970s when an Australian geologist took a hammer to the…

By Brian Ashcraft Published March 17, 2010

Mario’s Inferno Sticks It To EA’s Marketing Team

Few trailers in recent memory have polarised gamers as much as EA’s Dante’s Inferno clip for the Super Bowl. Would you have liked it more if, say, Dante was not Dante, but Mario? I like it more. Well, except for the Bill Withers. Even in this parody version, it still doesn’t sit right. If you…

By Luke Plunkett Published March 17, 2010

Who Is Brave Enough To Squeeze Into This Vinyl Samus Zero Suit?

Only answer if you’re also wealthy enough to afford the form-fitting suit that made Samus Aran more of a sex object after Metroid: Zero Missions, because this custom-made Zero Suit probably won’t go cheap. The folks at Wii Folder are auctioning off this one-of-a-kind bounty hunter get up on eBay, which they call “the best…

By Michael McWhertor Published March 16, 2010

Capt. Mario Answers The Call Of Duty

Mario as veteran spec ops commando and Peach as kidnappable scientist in “Super Mario Warfare” by the talented and regularly featured Agent Scarlet, as seen at DeviantArt via GameFreaks. (Thanks, Morris!)

By Michael McWhertor Published March 16, 2010

Wii-Exclusive Samurai Warriors 3 Journeys To America

Tecmo Koei’s Wii-exclusive third entry in the Samurai Warriors series is coming to North America this fall, with Nintendo of America signing on to handle publishing and distribution duties. Nintendo apparently sees something special in the third entry in the Samurai Warriors series, a spinoff of the storied Dynasty Warriors franchise. The game was released…

By Mike Fahey Published March 16, 2010

How Do You Name Your Pokémon?

Pokémon HeartGold and SoulSilver hit the streets Sunday, and the widespread capture and training of those adorable little fighting machines began anew. With so many Pokémon to capture, how do you tell them apart? By assigning clever nicknames, that’s how. When I played the original Pokémon Red, way back when I was still technically too…

By Mike Fahey Published March 16, 2010

Someone’s Gonna Buy a R.O.B. for Four Grand

This display case, containing a pristine, never-played Nintendo Entertainment System, and a never-used Robotic Operating Buddy (we like to be formal on first reference here) fetched $4,150 in an eBay auction that just closed. For those who remember when the console first came out, this would be the Deluxe Set, which included the console and…

By Owen Good Published March 15, 2010

Raise a Toast to Toast Mario

Mario, represented by several dozen slices of toasted bread and some plain hamburger buns. Seen via Epic Win FTW. You know what’s coming next: Bacon Luigi.

By Owen Good Published March 15, 2010